Yoga Suffering Quotes

#1. You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.

Sebastian Pole

#3. Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others.

Amit Ray

#4. In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#5. The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

Nirmala Srivastava

#6. Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

Bikram Choudhury

#8. When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

Jaggi Vasudev

#9. For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to the pain that life brings, we can truly cure our pain and avoid our suffering. Then we can walk in the valley of love and experience the vast space within our heart.

Sebastian Pole

#10. The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.

Sharon Gannon